We already knew the asteroid 130 Elektra was special. Astronomers previously discovered it had two moons, making it a rare triple asteroid system. Now a third moon may have been found, making it even more uncommon — the first-known quadruple asteroid in the solar system.
Elektra was first discovered in 1873, orbiting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Oblong-shaped and 160 miles across on its longest side, it is a relatively large asteroid and completes an orbit of the sun every five years.
Asteroid Ryugu samples, now on Earth, reveal inner workings of the space rock | Space
Pieces of rock from the asteroid Ryugu splashed down on Earth in 2020. Now, scientists studying the samples are revealing the asteroid's true nature.
Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid that Japan visited with its Hayabusa2 spacecraft. The craft launched in 2014, arrived at the space rock in 2018 and in December 2020 dropped off a capsule carrying 0.2 ounces (5.4 grams) of asteroid material to Earth.
Earth's 2022 Valentine – An Asteroid Sharing Our Orbit | University of Central Florida News
An international team of astronomers confirmed this week that the asteroid shares our planet's orbit, only the second asteroid ever discovered to do that. The revelation is important because these Earth Trojans may help explain how planets formed in the solar system.
Toni Santana-Ros, from the University of Alicante and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona led the study. Maxime Devogèle, a UCF research scientist, and part of the planetary radar group at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, was part of the team.
Asteroid RE1 officially named after the late SOPHIE following fan-made petition : Dancing Astronaut
Now we have definitive, empirical proof that the late electronic producer and multi-hyphenate talent SOPHIE is officially orbiting in outer space.
The exoplanet was originally discovered in 1980 by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory in the Czech Republic, with an outer surface that reflects the pastel colors used in musical mastermind’s 2018 LP, Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides .
Asteroid Ryugu Provides Least Contaminated Extraterrestrial Materials Ever Studied
In a recent study posted to the Research Square preprint* server as a submission to the journal Nature , researchers from Japan studied the unique and pristine record of materials from asteroid Ryugu.
Study: Hayabusa2 returned samples: A unique and pristine record of outer Solar System materials from asteroid Ryugu . Image Credit: Alexyz3d/Shutterstock.com
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